Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-12

"oitu uikcu tHOusduu uOltaIs- 1De GOE'
ernment OF the United States took off the
tax from personal income, amobg other
reasons because so few people would tell
the truth, and many q man with an in
come Of hundreds of dollars day made
statements which seemed to imply he was
about to be handed over to the oyerseer OF
the poor. Careful TO pay their passage
from Liverpool to New York, yet smugg!-
ing in their Saratoga trunk tsn silk dresses
from Paris and half dozen watches from
Geneva, Switzerland, telling the Custom
House officer on the what, There is
nothing in that trunk but wearing appar.
el, and putting five dollar gold d.piece in
his hand to punctuate the stStement
Described in the text are sll those who
are particular never to break the law OF
grammar, and who want all their Language
an elegant specimen Of syntaN, sIaining
ont all the inaccuracies speech
WITH FINE SIEVE
OF literary criticism, while through their
conversation 90 slander and innuendo, and
profanity and fslsehood larger than a
whole caravan Of camels, when they
might better fracture every law of the Ian
guase and shock intellectual taste, and
better let every verb seek in vain for its
nomiuatiye, and every noun for its govern
ment, and every proposition lose its way
IN the sentence, and adjectives aud pirtici-
Piles and prOnouns get into grand riot
worthy OF the Fourth ward on election
day, than TO commit a moral inaccuracy.
Better swallow Thousand grats than one
camel.
Slch persons are also described in the
text who are very much alarmed about
the small faults of Others, and have no
alarm about their own great ttrausgressions
There are in every community and in
every church watch-dogs who feel called
upon to keep their eyes on others and
growl. They are full of suspicions They
wonder If that man ia not dishonest, il
that man is not unclean, if there is not
something wrong about the other man.
They are always the first to hear Of any
thing wrong. Vnltures are al ways the first
to smell carrion. They are s,lf.appointed
detectives. | law this down as rule
without sny exct ption, that those people
who have the most faults themselves are
most mercless in their watching of others.
From scalp of head TO sole of foot they are
full Of jealousies and hypercriticisms They
spend their life IN hunting for musk rats
and mud-turtleS instead Of hunting for
Rocky Mountain eagles, always for some
thing mean instead OF something grand.
They look at the neighbors imperfections
through mic, oscOpe, and look at their
Ia,,N IL, 81 a
down. Twenty faults of their own do not
hurt them much ss
ONE FAULT OF SOMEBODY ELSE
Their neighbors' imperfections are like
gnats, and they strain them out; their
own imperfections are like camels, and
they swallow them.
But lest some might think they escape
the scrutiny Of the text, have to tell you
that We all come under the divine satire
when we make the questions of time more
prominent than the questions of eternity
Come, now, let us all 90 into the cOnies-
sional. Are not all tempted 10 make the
question, Where shall live now? greater
than the question, Where shall live tor
ever? How shall get more money here?
greater than the question, how shall Law
up treasures in heaven? The question:
How shall pay my debts to man? greater
than the question, How shall meet my
obligations to God? The question, How
shall gain the world? greater than the
question, What if lose my soul? The
question, Why did God let sin come into
the world? greater than the question, How
shall get it extirpated from my nature?
The question,
What shall / do with twenty, or forty,
or seventy-f five years of my sublunar ex-
istenceT greater than than the question
What shall do with the millions of
cycles of my post-terrestrial existence?
Time, how small it is Eternity. how
vas. it il! The former more insignificant
in comparison with the latter than the
gnat Is Insignificant when compared with a
camel. We lodged the text We said,
That doesn't mean me, and that doesn't
mean me-" and with a ruinous benevo-
lence We are giving the whole sermon
away.
But let US all surrender 10 the charge
What an ado about things here. What
poor preparation for great eternity. AS
though minnow were larger than behe.
moth, as though n swallow took wider
circuit than al albatros, as though net
tie were taller than a Lebanon cedar, as
though o gnat we're greater than a camel,
~ though 4 minute were longer than a
century, "a though time were higher
deeper, broader than eternity. So the
text which flashed with lightning Of wit
az Christ uttered it, is followed by the
crashing thunders of awful catastrophe TO
those who make the questions Of the fu-
ture, the oncOming overshadowing, future.
o eternity eternity eternity!